I was conscious all the while in my heart how my fate raced on at breakneck speed,racing and chasing like a frightened horse, straight for the precipitous abyss, spurred on by dreadand longing to the...
I want to tell you something today, something that I have known for a long while, and you know it too; but perhaps you have never said it to yourself. I am going to tell you now what it is that I know...
I lived in those dreams—I was always a heavy dreamer—more than in real life; those shadows consumed my strength and life.
I cannot understand what pleasures and joys they are that drive people to the overcrowded railways and hotels, into the packed cafés with the suffocating and oppressive music, to the Bars and variety...
Here, too, I found neither home nor company, nothing but a seat from which to view a stage where strange people played strange parts.
Earlier I had thought a lot about why it was so extremely unusual for a person to be able to live for an ideal. Now I saw that many people, all in fact, are capable of dying for an ideal. Only, it mus...
Each one carries with him to the end traces of his birth, the slime and eggshells of a primordial world.
Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden.. forbidden for him. It's possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa.
E poi di nuovo, come oggi, può divenirmi problematico il fatto che abbia veramente visto, udito, odorato qualcosa o se invece tutto ciò che credo di percepire altro non sia se non l'immagine della mia...
E eu via prados e declives, gretas de penhascos cobertas de grama, flores, fetos e musgos, aos quais a velha voz popular dera nomes tão singulares e tão cheios de significações. Viviam, filhos e netos...
Comprendí al punto: era la lucha entre los hombres y las máquinas, preparada, esperada y temida desde hace mucho tiempo, la que por fin había estallado. Por todas partes yacían muertos y mutilados, po...
But the world itself, what exists around us and inside of us, is never one-sided. A person or an act is never entirely Sansara or entirely Nirvana, a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful....
But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.
But he has not killed himself, for a glimmer of belief still tells him that he is to drink this frightful suffering in his heart to the dregs, and that it is of this suffering he must die
Bilgelik bir başkasına anlatılamaz; bir bilgenin başkalarına anlatmaya çalıştığı bilgelik aptalca bir şey gibi gelir kulağa.
At last- I had already given up hope- he broke throught the magic wall; at last helped me; at last he said a few words. Those were the only words I heard him speak today. 'You are tiring yourself Jose...
As palavras não fazem bem ao sentido oculto, tudo o que é igual torna-se sempre um pouco diferente quando é dito em voz alta, um pouco falseado, um pouco louco.
As every blossom fadesand all youth sinks into old age,so every life’s design, each flower of wisdom,attains its prime and cannot last forever.The heart must submit itself courageouslyto life’s call w...
As a ball-player plays with his balls, he played with his business-deals, with the people around him, watched them, found amusement in them; with his heart, with the source of his being, he was not wi...
And when I had learned it, I looked atmy life, and it was also a river, and the boy Siddhartha was onlyseparated from the man Siddhartha and from the old man Siddhartha by ashadow, not by something re...